I may be somewhat unobjective about this (a piece of mine is mentioned in the piece I’m about to link), but this Jason Diamond essay on zines at the Rumpus is quite good.

I’m not sure if 2009’s quality crop of zines was a reaction to the sad state of print media, but it would hardly surprise me if that was indeed the case.  Through casual observation, a thumb-through of the Microcosm Publishing catalog, a walk through stores like Quimby’s in Chicago, or Spoonbill & Sugartown in Brooklyn, you see that a culture thought to be dead or dying is thriving.

There’s a bit of a followup to it over at Vol.1. Oddly, I picked up the same issue of Burn Collector a few days ago, at the fine Desert Island in Brooklyn.